Demography and the emergence of universal patterns in urban systems
According to Zipf’s law, the population size of a city is inversely proportional to its size rank in any urban system. The authors show how demography explains this law as a time average of balanced migration between cities and how deviations express information about people’s net preferences.
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oai:doaj.org-article:ed3108dd1947424f8f75db65214bc6c82021-12-02T17:42:11ZDemography and the emergence of universal patterns in urban systems10.1038/s41467-020-18205-12041-1723https://doaj.org/article/ed3108dd1947424f8f75db65214bc6c82020-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18205-1https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723According to Zipf’s law, the population size of a city is inversely proportional to its size rank in any urban system. The authors show how demography explains this law as a time average of balanced migration between cities and how deviations express information about people’s net preferences.Luís M. A. BettencourtDaniel ZündNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2020) |
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According to Zipf’s law, the population size of a city is inversely proportional to its size rank in any urban system. The authors show how demography explains this law as a time average of balanced migration between cities and how deviations express information about people’s net preferences. |
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